There is speculation (on realGM - so the most baseless kind) that the Beasley to Miami for the 2nd rounder is being pushed for by Toronto in order to send Beasley to the Wolves but still allow us a larger TPE in order to absorb Al Jefferson in the Rubio deal. This is all pie in the sky stuff - but I'll take baseless speculation indicating a possible franchise player coming to the Raptors over nothing at all.

I don't really see why everyone is saying Kahn is such an idiot (aside from the recent Darko thing which was just :facepalm. Rubio was the BPA with the 5th pick, and Flynn was possibly the BPA with the 6th. To say he should have taken Curry is revisionist - there were lots of issues with Curry not having the size and court vision to be an effective NBA PG.

Everyone shat on him for taking another PG after Rubio, but what was he suppose to do, take DeRozan or Jordan Hill with the 6th?

As long as it's not our first rounder. If we have a chance to be drafting some stud point guard prospects in next years point guard heavy class, man would we be kicking ourselves.

I say you give them the first rounder. Rubio should have been the 2nd or 3rd overall pick and slipped because of his contract situation. I personally don't think Toronto is going to get a pick much higher than 7th-8th.

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Originally Posted by jeffb

If you had to choose?

Okafor/Collison or Rubio/Jefferson

Rubio/Jefferson. I'll always take the deal which includes a possible franchise player over one that doesn't. Jefferson's contract sucks, he doesn't play D, and he's injury prone. But that said he's a possible 23-11 guy when healthy. If he gets hurts then it just helps our lottery aspirations.

come on guys, i like the sound of Rubio here as much as anyone so i can't blame Jeff for posting the story, but "2 cousins from Barcelona that go to the same gym as Rubio"??? It's a little far fetched to be taken all that seriously. I DEFINATELY wouldn't get me hopes up or even consider trade logistics at this point.